The Obsessive Maniac Is Trying To Confine Me - Chapter 53

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Episode 53

Rihardt thought the situation was flowing strangely.

He had clearly entered deep into the maze, but suddenly found himself moved to a place no different from outside the maze.

“Do you have the luxury to let your guard down?”

Whoosh!

Yurta’s silver sword reflected the sunlight as it aimed for Rihardt’s nape.

As Rihardt twisted his body to dodge the sword and approached behind Yurta to grab his nape, Yurta quickly spun half a turn and retreated backward.

Without giving even a moment’s gap, he immediately swung his sword diagonally, but the agile monster dodged it.

Wind blew every time the two swift men moved.

The two men stopped in that state and faced off for a moment.

It was a fight where victory wouldn’t come easily.

The knights knew that if they stepped forward in this fight, they would only be a hindrance, so they retreated several steps and watched Yurta and Rihardt.

The knights’ faces were stained with tension.

The standoff between Rihardt and Yurta didn’t last long. This time, Rihardt was the first to charge at Yurta.

Dust swirled up and before they knew it, Rihardt had approached right in front of Yurta’s nose.

“Let me ask you one thing. What is your relationship with that maid?”

“A very special relationship.”

Rihardt’s eyebrows twitched at Yurta’s answer.

Yurta was equally displeased with Rihardt’s question.

The two men glared at each other as if they had met natural enemies ready to tear each other apart.

The air between them was stretched taut as if it would snap.

Rihardt reached out his hand to use magic, but Yurta also swung his sword with the intention to attack.

But that’s when it happened.

“Roji! I trusted you, how could you do such a thing!”

A sound that struck their ears intensely echoed out.

The two beasts who heard the sound ‘Roji’ momentarily stopped their movements.

“How could you have an affair with my man!”

An affair?

Once again, the intensity that struck their ears.

It was natural that both men’s eyes contorted at that word.

They were clearly expressing displeasure, when something truly unexpected happened.

The blonde woman who had been venting her resentment struck Roji’s head with the frying pan she was holding.

Thwack!

A rather dull sound was heard.

Frail Roji collapsed helplessly without being able to resist.

Cracks appeared simultaneously on the faces of Yurta and Rihardt, who had stopped fighting to watch the situation.

“Who…!”

It was the moment when flustered Yurta was shouting.

Suddenly Yurta’s vision blurred and he felt intense pain as if fireworks were exploding in his head.

“Ugh…!”

That damn monster bastard.

Taking advantage of Yurta’s moment of carelessness, the monster had attempted magic.

As Yurta staggered momentarily, the knights urgently grabbed their swords.

They thought that monster would attack Yurta.

However, the monster paid no attention to Yurta and passed by him.

The monster ran quickly.

Was he trying to escape?

If the monster succeeded in escaping like this, they would be dead. The knights gripped their swords with trembling hands.

But the monster ran past the knights. In a direction they never expected.

Straight toward the maid who had received righteous frying pan justice for the crime of having an affair.

The monster hurriedly examined the maid who had been hit on the head with the frying pan, then carefully shook her.

His usually composed face was nowhere to be seen, replaced by urgency.

“Miss Maid, are you alright?”

Rihardt carefully shook Roji’s shoulder, trying to wake the collapsed Roji.

Then Roji blinked her eyes blankly. She seemed to be in a dazed state.

After blinking for a while, Roji recognized the being who was shaking her body.

“Monster…?”

“…I’m not a monster, but do you recognize me?”

“Well…”

“Please speak.”

“I’m sorry…”

Roji smiled hazily and lifted up a frying pan she had somehow obtained.

At that moment, Rihardt realized something was wrong. But there was no time to dodge.

Roji struck Rihardt’s head with the frying pan with a thwack.

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The reason I had been so anxious about Rihardt’s escape was actually because I thought I might have handled things poorly.

If I had told them in advance that Philip was going to set the fire, the manor wouldn’t have caught fire.

Of course, I had tried to prevent it in my own way, but it had happened anyway.

Still, if I had done that, there would have been no need to run away…

Regret came too late.

Whether Yurta could beat Rihardt was also uncertain.

If Yurta lost, Arzen might blame me for the cause.

So I thought I had to somehow catch Rihardt myself and salvage the situation.

‘How exactly did I knock out Rihardt when he tried to escape before?’

I stared at my hands, but they were just frail hands.

‘But did I really do it?’

Maybe he just collapsed from anemia or something?

I suddenly felt discouraged.

No, actually, even if I had knocked out Rihardt with some power I didn’t know I had, I couldn’t use that power in front of everyone.

I didn’t even know how to use that power in the first place.

So there was only one method.

Making Rihardt let his guard down.

‘If Rihardt wins that fight, will he try to kidnap me again?’

But since he failed badly last time, he wouldn’t try the same thing again.

‘Ah, then what should I do…’

While I was racking my brains, what caught my eye was the frying pan Emily was holding.

If I fainted, wouldn’t Rihardt feel relieved that he wouldn’t suffer the same fate as last time?

So I decided to bet on odds close to gambling.

Emily reluctantly hit me while giving a reasonable excuse through her tears, and I briefly lost consciousness from that brutal force.

No, Emily.

I told you I shouldn’t lose consciousness.

But very fortunately, Rihardt approached to kidnap me as planned, and at that moment my eyes opened just right.

I struck Rihardt with the frying pan.

“Ugh…”

Rihardt contorted his eyes and staggered from the sudden pain.

For a moment, seeing him in pain made me feel guilty.

I thought like self-hypnosis to shake off the uncomfortable emotion that clung to me like a leech.

After all, he was someone who tried to kidnap me again for his own benefit.

Of course, I was the one who intended that.

I raised the frying pan in my hand, thinking to knock him unconscious once more, but Rihardt grabbed my hand.

The sensation of his large hand gripping mine was eerie.

When I looked at him in surprise, his blue eyes sparkled like fluorescent lights.

“Miss Maid…”

At his voice, lower than usual, I instinctively flinched and trembled.

Meeting Rihardt’s murderous gaze made me momentarily dizzy.

However, completely different words than expected came from Rihardt’s mouth.

“Miss Maid, did you really cheat on me?”

For a moment, I gave up thinking.

“…How does that question come up in this situation?”

When I attacked you?

Did getting hit squarely with the frying pan scramble his brains?

“I asked if it’s true that you cheated.”

I thought he might be joking even in this situation, but Rihardt looked endlessly serious.

“I asked if you really cheated.”

“…Whether I cheated or not, what does it have to do with you?”

I could have just said I didn’t cheat, but at the sudden question, I ended up saying something different.

As expected, or should I say, Rihardt looked dumbfounded.

No, but really, whatever I do, what does it have to do with you.

It was when I was staring at Rihardt in confusion that the strength left his hand holding mine.

“…Damn it. That scent again.”

Scent?

Rihardt’s body swayed more violently than when he was hit with the frying pan.

“…Miss Maid, you really.”

Rihardt looked at me with a twisted smile.

Somehow he also seemed annoyed.

This was the first time he had revealed his emotions so openly without hiding them.

“…You’re really in the way.”

“…”

“That’s what’s annoying about you.”

Leaving only those words, Rihardt collapsed with a thud.

I didn’t even have time to be surprised by his words.

Unable to bear the weight of him collapsing on top of me, my body also fell together, so I couldn’t think deeply about his words.

“R-Roji!”

Emily, who was nearby, screamed and then groaned as she moved Rihardt’s body away.

What the hell are the knights doing?

I opened my eyes irritably and looked around to see Arzen had come out to the garden.

He was looking at the current situation with contemplative eyes, as if watching a comedy.

While waiting for future treatment, unexpected words came from Arzen’s mouth.

“I didn’t realize you were going around cheating.”

“…”

“I didn’t know you had such a terrible hobby.”

“No, that’s not it…”

Emily…

I was the one who asked her to hit me while giving some random excuse…

I never expected everyone around me to look at me like trash.

I didn’t cheat. I didn’t!

However, Arzen didn’t give me any chance to make excuses.

“What are you doing? Clean this up.”

The knights who had been watching quietly moved urgently.

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